Curriculum Vitae
Name
Position
Anna Catharina Björnsdotter
Berge
Associate researcher, Post-doctorate
FDIU- CVM, Washington State University
Field Disease
Investigation Unit
PO Box 647040
College of Veterinary
Medicine
Washington State University
Pullman,
WA, 99164-7040
International School of
Brussels, Belgium
International
Baccalaureate
June, 1985
Swedish Agricultural
University,
Masters
of Science
Dec. 1991
Doctor
of Veterinary Medicine
Dec. 1991
University of
California,
Masters
of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
Dec. 2000
PhD
in Comparative Pathology
Dec. 2004
Languages spoken:
Swedish, English, French, Dutch, and limited Spanish
Computer proficiency in
Word processing, spreadsheets, data handling, statistical software; SAS,
Stata, StatXact, @Risk, Powerpoint, Adobe Illustrator.
National Food
Administration
Veterinary meat inspector
June-Aug. 1989
Porcine Health
Organization
Animal health veterinarian
June-Aug. 1990
Swedish Board of
Agriculture
Large Animal Veterinarian
June-Aug. 1991
Swedish Board of
Agriculture
Large Animal Veterinarian
April-Oct.1992
Swedish Board of
Agriculture
Veterinary Inspector
Oct. 92-Aug. 95
National Food
Administration
Senior Veterinary Inspector
Sept. 95-July 98
European Commission
National Expert,
March
96- Dec 96
University of
California, Davis
Graduate researcher
May 99- Dec 04
University of
California, Davis Post
doctorate researcher
Jan 05 - June 07
Washington State
University
Post doctorate researcher
July 07 - present
Publications-Peer
reviewed:
Berge, A.C.B.
Sischo, W.M, Atwill, E.R, 2001, Assessing dynamics of antibiotic resistance
in fecal Escherichia coli in young calves using Cluster analysis
techniques. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society for
Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, March 28-30.
Berge, A.C.B.,
Atwill, E.R, Sischo, W.M, 2003, Assessing dynamics of antibiotic resistance
in fecal Escherichia coli in young calves using cluster analysis
techniques. Prev. Vet. Med. 61:
91-102
Scuota, S., Cenci Goga, B.T,
Berge, A.C.B, Vizzani, A., 2003 Valuatione dell’antibiotico resistenza
in stipiti di Salmonella isolati in Umbria da fonti umane e non umane
mediante l’analisi dei cluster. Proceedings XIII Convegno Nazionale
AIVI, Montesilvano (Pe) Italy, 6-8 June 2003.
Berge, A.C.B., Adaska, J.M., Sischo, W.M. 2004, Using
antibiotic susceptibility patterns and pulse field gel electrophoresis to
compare historic and contemporary isolates of multi-drug resistant Salmonella
enterica subspecies enterica serovar Newport.
Appl. Env. Epidemiol.
70:318-232
Berge, A.C.B.,
Moore, D.E, Lindeque, P, Sischo, W.M., 2005, A Clinical Field Trial in a Calf Ranch
Evaluating the Influence of Prophylactic and Therapeutic Antibiotic Use on
calf health. J. Dairy Sci. 88:2166-2177
Berge, A.C.B.,
Atwill, E.R., Sischo, W.M., 2005, Animal and farm influences on the dynamics
of antibiotic resistance in fecal Escherichia coli in young calves. Prev.
Vet. Med. 69:25-38.
Galvão, K., Berge,
A.C.B., Coscioni, A., Villaseñor, M., Sischo, W.M., Santos, J.E.P.
2005, Effect of Feeding Live Yeast Products to Calves with Failure of
Passive Transfer on Performance and Patterns of Antibiotic Resistance in
fecal Escherichia coli. Repro. Nutrit. Develop. 3: 427-440
Berge, A.C.B,
Epperson, W.B., Pritchard, R.H., 2005 Assessing the effect of single dose
florfenicol treatment in feedlot cattle on the antimicrobial resistance
patterns in fecal Escherichia coli. Vet. Res. 36:723-734
Berge, A.C.B.
Moore, D.E., Sischo, W.M. 2006 A Clinical Field Trial in a Calf Ranch Evaluating the
Influence of Prophylactic and Therapeutic Antibiotic Use on Antibiotic
Resistance in Fecal Escherichia coli. Appl.
Env. Epidemiol. 72:3872-3878
Berge,
A. C. B., E.L. Dueger, W.M. Sischo,
2006 Comparison of Salmonella enterica serovar distribution and
antibiotic resistance profiles in grey water at two municipal water
treatment plants. J. Appl. Microbiol.101:1309-1316
Berge, A.C.B.,
Moore, D.A. Sischo, W.M., 2006 Antibiotic resistance in non-clinical
isolates of Salmonella enterica from pre-weaned calves in dairies and
calf ranches in California. Am.
J. Vet. Res. 67(9):1580-1588
Berge, A. C. B., W.M.
Sischo, A.L. Graigmill, 2006. Antibiotic susceptibility of respiratory
pathogens from sheep and goat to some common therapeutic antibiotics. J.
Am. Vet. Assoc. 229(8):1279-1281
Bae,
W., Hancock, D.D., Call, D.R., Park, J.H., Berge, A.C.B., Finger, R.M.,
Sischo, W.M., Besser, T.E., 2007 Dissemination of Clonal, Multidrug
Resistant Campylobacter coli Strains among Washington State and California
Cattle. Vet. Microbiol.
122:306-315
Berge, A.C.B.,
Barnett, S.C, Finger, R.M., Sischo, W.M., 2007 The use of bulk tank milk to
monitor trends in antimicrobial resistance on dairy farms. Foodborne
Path.Dis.4:397-407.
Berge,
A.C.B., Thornburg, E., Adaska, J.M.,
Moeller, R.B., Blanchard, P.C., Antimicrobial
resistance in Salmonella enterica
subspecies enterica serovar Dublin
from dairy source calves in the central San Joaquin Valley, California
during the years 1998–2002, J. Vet.
Diagn. Invest. June (4) 2008, IN PRESS.
Berge,
A.C.B., Glanville, T.L., Millner,
P.D., Klingborg, D.J., "A review of methods and microbial risks
associated with composting of animal carcasses in the United States." JAVMA
2008 IN PRESS
Berge, A.C.B.
2001, Antibiotikaanvändning vid kalvuppfödning i Kalifornien. Svensk
Veterinärtidning. 53, Nr
4.
Berge, A.C.B. 2001, Kalvuppfödningen i USA: Beroende av antibiotika. Nötkött,
Nr 3, June.
Berge, A.C.B.
2004: Spatial,
Temporal and Management-Specific Factors Influencing Antibiotic Resistance
and Carbohydrate Fermentation Patterns in Bovine Enteric Escherichia coli
and the Clinical Consequences of Limiting Antibiotic Use in Pre-weaned
Calves. UMI Dissertation Services, ProQuest.
Scholarships:
UC Davis, Jastro-Shields:
Non-resident tuition fees for PhD graduate studies, 2002.
UC Davis, Dean:
Non-resident tuition fees for PhD graduate studies, 2002-2004
2002 CRWAD: Best
Graduate Student Award Oral Presentation. Awarded by the Association for
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine.
Educational
and Extension Activities.
1985-86
– International School of Brussels: A year of tutoring and
mentoring > 30 high school students in mathematics, physics, chemistry
and biology.
1993-1995:
Swedish Board of Agriculture, Sweden’s animal health in the
European Union. A seminar series for veterinary practitioners, officers and
students in all regions of Sweden.
January 1999. International
Seminars at UC Davis, Davis, CA, “Animal welfare in Sweden”
February 1999, International
Seminars at UC Davis, CA, “The Swedish Salmonella
Control Program”
Jan. 2002, North
Valley Dairy Day in California., Orland, CA,
“Antibiotic resistance in calves.”
Feb.
2003. International Seminars at UC Davis. CA, “Animal welfare in
Sweden and European Union.”
Oct. 2005, Calf College,
Fresno, Madeira, Chino, California,
“Antibiotic resistance and Salmonella in pre-weaned calves.
What could be done? What should be done?” and “Raising healthy calves
with less antibiotics”
July 2006, Lander
Veterinary Clinic, Turlock, CA, “Raising healthy calves with less
antibiotic use”.
Dec 2006, Schering-Plough
Vet to vet symposium.NE. “Disease and therapy principles in intensive
calf rearing systems.”
March 2006-Oct 2006 Expert
advice to the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) on calf welfare
Jan 2007. International
Seminars at UC Davis, CA. “Animal welfare in Sweden”
March
2007. Visalia, CA. California Laboratory Technician Seminar.
Food-related and environmental flow of Salmonella enterica and its
impact on human infection.
June
2007, National Carcass Composting Meeting. UC Davis, Ca. “Carcass
composting- a literature review”. Expert panelist.
March
2008, Calftech Calf Health College, Albany, OR, “Raising calves
with less antibiotics”
Feb-April 1995.
Veterinary official from an adhesion country to the European Union at The
European Commission DG VI/B.II.2
June 1996. ISO 9001 Lead
Assessor Course by Lloyds, Campden, United Kingdom
Nov 1996. Wild game
disease & meat inspection course by National Food
Administration/National Veterinary Institute
March 1996. European
Commission exchange program for Official Veterinarians,
1
month in Portugal
Sept 1997. Hazard
Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP), National Food Administration
Sept 1999. Center for
Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA, Diarrheal and Foodborne Disease
Branch. 1-month apprenticeship
Sept 2003. Multi-level
modeling, Chicago, IL
Sept 2005. CSREES
Writing competitive grants workshop, Moscow, Idaho
Sept 2005. Public Health
Policy workshop, University of California, Davis, CA
Aug 2006. Microbial Risk
Assessment Workshop. Center for Advancement of Microbial Risk Assessment,
University of Michigan, MI
Nov 2006-2008.
California Agricultural Leadership Fellowship. – A two year program to
promote and educate leaders in animal agriculture.
Oral and
poster presentations (performed since the beginning of further education in
August 1998) (presentations are oral, unless otherwise noted):
May 1999. Presentation
to a French delegation, Tulare, CA, “Antibiotics in Food Animals-US
national legislation compared to European”
Nov. 1999. CRAWD
(Conference for Research Workers in Animal Diseases), Chicago, IL,
“The dynamics of antibiotic resistance in young calves.”
Oct. 2000. AAVLD
(American Association for Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians):
“Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of Salmonella spp.
Isolated from animals and animal environments in Ohio, 1998-1999.”
Oct. 2000. Food
safety seminar, UC Davis, CA, “Assessing the dynamics of antibiotic
resistance in fecal Escherichia coli in young calves using cluster analysis
techniques, Poster: Antibiotic resistance in fecal Enterococcus faecalis
in young calves.”
Nov. 2000. CRWAD,
Chicago, IL, Poster: “Assessing the dynamics of antibiotic resistance in
young calves using cluster analysis techniques.”
March 2001. Society
for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, The Netherlands,
“Assessing dynamics of antibiotic resistance in fecal Escherichia coli
in young calves using Cluster analysis techniques.”
Nov. 2001. CRWAD,
Chicago, IL, “Using antibiotic susceptibility patterns to study the
emergence of a unique strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Newport
in dairy cattle.”
Nov. 2001. CRWAD,
Poster: “Wild Birds on dairies.”
Nov. 2001. CRWAD,
Poster: “Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli isolates
from waterways in a dairy intense area.”
March 2002., CDC
meeting on Multi-drug Resistant Salmonella Newport, Atlanta, GE,
“Using antibiotic susceptibility patterns and PFGE to study the emergence
of a unique strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Newport in
dairy cattle.”
Nov.
2002. CRWAD, St. Louis, MO, “A clinical field trial in a calf ranch
evaluating the influence of prophylactic And therapeutic antibiotic use on
antibiotic resistance in fecal Escherichia coli and calf health.”
Nov.
2002. CRWAD, St. Louis, MO, Poster: “Relationship between
antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Escherichia coli and Salmonella
enterica isolated from bulk tank milk.”
Nov.
2003. CRWAD, Chicago, IL, “The clonal dissemination of antibiotic
resistant fecal Escherichia coli in bovine animal production in
Washington State.”
June
2004. Texas A&M, College Station, TX, “Antibiotic use and
antibiotic resistance in enteric Escherichia coli in pre-weaned dairy
calves.”
July
2004. World Buiatrics Conference, Quebec, Canada, “A clinical field
trial in a calf ranch evaluating the influence of prophylactic and
therapeutic antibiotic use on antibiotic resistance in fecal Escherichia
coli and calf health.”
Nov.
2004. United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) Committee on Salmonella,
Greensboro, NC, “Using antibiotic susceptibility patterns and pulse field
gel electrophoresis to compare historic and contemporary isolates of
multi-drug resistant Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica
serovar Newport.” "Time Specific Scientific Papers",
May
2005. Ohio State University: “Antibiotic use and antibiotic
resistance in enteric Escherichia coli in pre-weaned dairy calves.”
Aug
2005. UC Davis. “The risks of Salmonella and Antibiotic
Resistance in pre-weaned calves” and “Risk factors associated with
antibiotic resistance in fecal Escherichia coli in pre-weaned
calves.”
June 2006. Future Fairs
Exhibition, Western Institute of Food Safety and Security,
Food-related and environmental flow of Salmonella enterica and its
impact on human infection. Poster Presentation.
Sept
2006, ASM Conference on Salmonella. Victoria, BC, Canada, “Using antibiotic
susceptibility patterns and pulse field gel electrophoresis to describe the
dissemination of Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar
Typhimurium in a dairy shed”